Famous quotes containing the words period, cold and/or war:

“Finally she grew quiet, and after that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage. Hours of this, a period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm.”—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)

“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;Mthey are the life, the soul of reading!take them out of this book, for instance,you might as well take the book along with them;Mone cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer;Mhe steps forth like a bridegroom,bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.”—Laurence Sterne (17131768)

“But no, he only said,Well, theres the storm. That says I must go on.That wants me as a war might if it came.Ask any man.”—Robert Frost (18741963)